Magyk: Darkness and Light

Chapter 24

Everything is pain. She tried to wake up but her eyes doesn't want to open, all she see was darkness. 'Hermione'. She heard the voice that feels familiar to her. Where is that voice coming from? Who's calling out her name? She looked at the surrounding but nothing else there,not even a bit of light or people, just darkness. 'Hermione, come back to us', the voice becomes louder and clearer. Draco's and Tom's name was all she could remember, didn't know how she remembered it because she could only think about the names that triggered her memory. The urge to go back to them was stronger as she began to said the words like a mantra. She closed her eyes and whispered an unknown words that leave her lips 'O meu corazón é teu e só os teus nomes son a miña casa. Dime como volver a eles'. She opened her eyes again and looked at the brightness of the light came from the Hospital Wing. The first thing she saw was Draco and Tom were looking concerned at her. "Tom... Draco... You're alive", she remembered everything that happened to them and relieved they still survived again. Draco and Tom gave her a small smile. "Welcome back, Hermione", Draco said gently. He looked tired with all of the bruises but his eyes twinkle with happiness when he saw she woke up after hours of deep sleep. Suddenly, she sat up straight and rambling about how much she missed all of the classes due to the exhaustion she had after the incident. She looked alive. Same old Hermione. Their Hermione. Tom approached her side while she still rant on and on and without thinking, cupped both her cheeks with his hands so she could look at him and stop talking. She stopped, a little surprised," Tom?"
He didn't answered it but the way he looked at her, it feels like butterflies in her stomach, she didn't know what that feeling is. All that matters now she was there with them and he never felt so glad for everything until now. Tom and Draco always vow to each other that they would always protect her no matter what risks it would take because without her, they're nothing. "You're brilliant but never ever do that again to us", he gripped both of her hands tightly and softly kissed them as if they were his precious treasure. Hermione's heart swelled with warmth when he did that to her, their friendship were too precious and no other words could explain that. She felt herself being pulled into both arms that wrapped around her, Draco was hugging her from behind while his head rested on her shoulder. They were belongs to each other and no one would take away what they have right now,not even Grindelwald, not anyone. The trio spent their time cuddling with each other on the last day of Christmas in the Hospital Wing, no one came there, just the three of them, comfortable with each other in silence. After the incident, Professor Old Greybeard levitiated the bodies of the dark wizards and alerted Professor Dumbledore picked up Grindelwald to the Auror Headquarters meanwhile he would managed the burial for the dead body of Professor Abernathy. Before the two professor apparated from Hogwarts, Professor Old Greybeard sent the trio to the Hospital Wing to be taken care by Noreen Blainey, the matron in Hogwarts. When Dumbledore and Professor Old Greybeard came back to Hogwarts in the morning, the trio were called by Headmaster Dippet to explain everything to him. " If anything happened to any of you, you could always asked for help from me or any professor that you felt comfortable with", Headmaster Dippet said, smiling. " Headmaster, what happened to Grindelwald? I mean there's no new about him attacking Hogwarts yesterday night ", Hermione asked with curiosity. " He'll be arrested by the Head of Auror himself. I'm sure you already know Mr Theseus Scamander", Headmaster Dippet replied to her. " I must say that it was a very foolish decision of you to go alone without no one knows. It was bravery but reckless", Dumbledore scolded Hermione with stern looking face. She lowered her face in shame, feeling guilty to cause a big trouble by making her teachers and friends worried. " You're lucky that Mr Riddle and Mr Malfoy quick in action to save you. If any of these happened again, don't do it alone", Professor Old Greybeard said. " However, I must take 50 points from each of you, breaking the curfew hours", Professor Dumbledore said again. Tom and Draco didn't care about the points right now but Hermione was saddened and the guilty feeling came back inside her. "But, I'll rewarded Mr Riddle and Mr Malfoy 100 points because of your quick action to prevent Miss Granger being harmed by Grindelwald ", Dumbledore said. " It seems that you three finally making peace with each other again ", He raised his left eyebrow, twinkled slightly as he thought about it. " We are... But wanted to hide it from everyone else because Slytherins started to shunned Tom and Draco because of our friendship ", Hermione replied to Dumbledore. " I see. Don't worry, I'll never said anything if that's what you're worried about, Miss Granger", he reassured her not to worry about it. Hermione sighed in relief. " I suggest you three go back to your dormitories and have a feast in the Great Hall after that", Headmaster Dippet said in gentle voice. "We'll be needing a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher since Professor Abernathy passed away by his own wand", he added again, frowned at the mysterious of the death of Professor Abernathy. Hermione was puzzled too, she remembered when Abernathy tried to hit them with the curse but he pointed the wand to his chest instead. Finally, the headmaster dismissed them, leaving the two professor still standing there in front of the headmaster. Tom closed the door and turned his body in front of his friends. " Let's go", he led Draco and Hermione away from Headmaster Dippet's office. They went to the staircase leading to the Hufflepuff Basement. There was a door in the entrance hall and taking the stairs downwards. Downstairs, in a broad stone basement corridor, brightly lit and decorated with food-themed paintings, Draco tickled a pear on a painting of a bowl of fruit.The pear giggled and turned into a large green door handle, revealing the entrance to the Hogwarts kitchens. Inside the kitchen, the trio saw an enormous, high-ceilinged room, large as the Great Hall above it, with mounds of glittering brass pots and pans heaped around the stone walls, and a great brick fireplace at the other end. They sat down on the wooden chairs and lay down their arms on the long table. "Pippy!" Draco called out an elf name and it pop out magically in front of him. " Is there anything I can do, Young Master?" Pippy blinked with wide looking eyes, expecting an instruction from Draco. " Prepared us some foods and drinks, would you? " Draco ordered the elf like a true heir of Malfoy even though he hadn't heard any elves calling him Young Master for a long time, he didn't mind, they could called him whatever names they wanted, not that he would corrected Pippy right now, all he could think about was foods, he was famished and tired after yesterday incident. Pippy walked away from them and started to cooking foods for them. Hermione didn't bothered to talk about how to treat elf rightly because she was just recovered from her injuries. They ate in silence for few minutes before they started to talk again about what happened. Hermione was the first one to break the silence between them. She took a deep breath and spoke in lowered voice, afraid that Tom and Draco still mad at her for not telling them why she decided to fight Grindelwald alone. " I'm sorry for not telling you two about what has been said in the letter. I was wrong to think that I could do it alone, I should have told you two to come with me to face Grindelwald", Hermione looked down at her food, waiting for the boys to reply back nervously. " Hermione, we're sorry too hiding the fact that we know who sent the letter and why they did it. But, please Hermione... Next time if something bad happened, don't do it alone. That was dangerous of you to take that risk by yourself ", Tom said in serious voice but his eyes told her he was relieved she safe and healed right now. " Tom is right, Hermione. Just promised us you'll never do that again to us ", Draco took her hand and gripped them tightly. " Are you two still mad at me?" Hermione stared at them with wide eyes, nibbles her lips nervously. Draco sighed heavily before saying " We were. Even if we warned you not to do it, you're stubborn and rebellious, Hermione. But, we are not mad anymore. All that matters is that you're safe, " Draco added again. Tom nodded, agreed in silence of what Draco said just now. Hermione smiled in relief. " I promised I will tell you if I get into trouble again in the future", she squeezed his hand and grabbed Tom's hand in front of her. They didn't talked about that incident again, all they wanted to do were spending their time together and they began to feel peaceful again in silence. On the other side of the castle, Professor Dumbledore stared at the window, watching the snow had freeze the surface of his window outside. His mind was far away right now, the only thing that wasn't left his thought was Gellert Grindelwald and the incident that happened yesterday. " How long have you know about the girl's bloodline?" His voice was gentle, eyes blinking slowly with his back still face Professor Old Greybeard. " Long enough before she was born", the professor answered him. " He will return to you once he's got away from Azkaban ", Professor Old Greybeard added again. " Gellert would always return to me, no matter how much we hated each other ", Dumbledore stared hard at the window, his face hardened again when old memory came back haunting him like a ghost. He turned his back again, face to face with Professor Old Greybeard, looking calm as ever. " When Cassandra told about the properchy eleven years ago, it makes me think it has something to do with Miss Granger, isn't it?" Dumbledore knew that Old Greybeard knew something about Hermione too since he was in fact the guardian of Hermione's ancestor. " I can't say what would happened in the future, because she was the one who will decide her own fate alongside with the boys. She is a Queen by blood". " Since she is the one that has been chosen to changed the fate of the future, next year will be restless as it already is right now ". Then, a light chuckle came from Professor Old Greybeard. " Then, our task can be quite handful to look after the rebellious little ones, Albus ". Dumbledore sighed again, thinking about two little sneaky Slytherins and one reckless Gryffindor whose friendship formed which was rare things happened between two Houses, he still doubtful about Mr Riddle and Mr Malfoy although they're a very good friend to Miss Granger. "They're destined to be together, inseparable one. I'm sure you know what it felt like when you have that kind of bond", Professor Old Greybeard softened his voice, knowing that Dumbledore's past with Grindelwald was painful to forget. " I know. No one can predicted nor changed the Fate itself. We do what we can do for them". " Are you going to visit Gellert then?" " I will. I need to talk to him. It's been a while since I saw him despite our past". Professor Old Greybeard nodded. He left the office once Dumbledore use the Floo Powder to Azkaban.